Learn how to renovate an old plane or correctly tune a new one.  At this one day workshop you will learn how to flatten the sole, sharpen the blade and adjust, fettle and finely tune your plane.  Bring at least one plane to work on…and make it sing

Gray BALMER

  • Tutor Group Tutor (Mon-Fri evenings & Fri mornings)
  • Instructor for Technical Workshops & Introduction to Furniture Making

Gray has been designing and making furniture since the early 1990s.

Gray is the Senior Tutor at Melbourne School of Fine Woodworking. Beginning in 1993, he has been teaching furniture design/making, wood finishing, router techniques, tool sharpening and plane tuning, with 9 years at Coles School of Woodcraft and since 2002 at Melbourne School of Fine Woodworking.

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“I wanted to thank you for a great Plane Tuning course. It gave me a much better understanding of planes and their uses AND I was able to bring my 100 year old plane, which was in pretty sad condition, and have it cleaned, tuned and operating by the end of the day. A triumph! There’s more work to do on it but I now understand what has to be done and what’s more, think I might just be able to do it.”

Rob